Speaking truth to power. I don't know if Sage College audiences are indeed the power I'd shake a fist at, but that is the theme of The REV Presents reading series this fall at their Troy, NY campus. Asked by beloved poet and friend Matt Klane, I'll be reading with also beloved poet and friend …
Women in Translation Month
In honor of #WITmonth, here's a list of a few interviews and reviews I've done that feature women writers whose work has been translated into English. The campaign was founded by Meytal Radzinski in 2014 to deal with the dearth of women writers in translation. You can read more about it and the events it's spawned …
#Gone Fishing
Well, writing. More accurately, revising, but that includes writing. And also fishing, in a way, though gardening analogies have always come more readily to me for the creative process. Perhaps that's because I put my hands in dirt waaaaay more than I ever drop bait in water. However I envision it, next week I'm Kingston …
It’s hot.
Next to me is THE CITY ALWAYS WINS by Omar Robert Hamilton...
Poetry & Politics: UK Version
I have won The votes That were in your Election And which You wanted To use As your mandate Forgive me They were So strong And so stable -Cal King @mynameiscal
RIP Denis Johnson
White, White Collars We work in this building and we are hideous in the fluorescent light, you know our clothes woke up this morning and swallowed us like jewels and ride up and down the elevators, filled with us, turning and returning like the spray of light that goes around dance-halls among the dancing fools. …
Writing About Politics
Can literary output have a role to play in our political future? Whether or not literature has any impact on politics, I do think we owe it to ourselves and to our readers to reckon with socio-political circumstances in our writing. The question then becomes: how to do this without losing ambiguity or artful nuance …
